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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
2
A fragmentary comic exchange plays on misunderstandings about emotional baggage and records. A maid and a bride reflect on wedding duties while a servant and a professor appear in a vignette, punctuated by a pun about fowls and teeth.
A reader poses five trivia prompts: complete the next line of a famous poem. identify The Land of the White Elephant. state the Atlantic Ocean’s greatest depth. confirm an Andalusian’s country origin. compare atom size to electron. and define the nautical term dead reckoning.
The statements present a mix of literary, linguistic, and nautical trivia. Topics include a Latin phrase about honor, Siam’s nickname The Land of the White Elephant, a distance claim near Puerto Rico, Spain as a region, the relative size of an electron to an atom, and a method to estimate a ship’s position using celestial navigation when stars are obscured.
The report compares 16 top brands and ranks Camel as delivering more tobacco per weight and burning slower than the rest. Camel's burn rate adds the equivalent of five extra smokes per pack, with longer ash retention and slower average burn times, highlighting its premium position and noted aroma.
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